Have you received a absentee ballot from the McCain campaign? They may be trying to have you dropped from the voter registration list (i.e. "caging"), but they are definitely trying to cause confusion with Democratic voters. There is no evidence that the McCain campaign is sending absentee ballots to Republican voters.

The way it all works, see, is that letters marked "do not forward" are, of course, returned to sender, in this case someone who doesn't want to see Democrats vote. A caging list is built from the returned mail and is used to challenge votes in close areas ... votes which, are most likely, Democratic – and who just didn't happen to be home when the mail came. If you send something looking like an absentee balllot (especially if the recpient didn't ever register for one), then it looks real official.

Voter fraud: it's never a problem until it looks like a Democrat might win.

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Graphic designer, writer, editor. Worker in the Big Machine; the quintessential working-class native Oregonian, I drive some of the grimier gears so the Big Cats and Kittens don't have to. Am in the process of reinventing myself as the artist I always ought to have been. My blog is The ZehnKatzen Times.

This sentence, courtesy of commenter "JD", will help you remember the initials in order:All Across Portland Our Streets Wind Around Mossy Yards. Traffic Snarls May Mean Jammed Cars, Cranky Motorists Making Minimal Headway. Harried Commuters Just Love Going Slow.

Commenter Dave DiNucci, using enough of the letters from each word to eliminate ambiguity, gives us the following two possiblilities: This first one plays on the fact that alphabetically-arranged streets going north from Burnside are named for Portland founders while those going south do not:ANcestors ASsociated Portland Oregon STreets With ALphabetic MORtals, Yet Toward SAlem, MAInly MADe JEjune, COLUmnar, CLiche MARked MIxtures. MONotones HARmonize HALfway, COLLiding JAuntily. Lines Gently SHim.

This second one is more poetic but less PDX-centered, but works the Gorge in, as well as Lincoln, Grant, and Sheridan: